This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!
Part 1: Finding a Moving Company
Past 2: A Slight Travel Panic
Part 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platforms (Cointracking vs Rotki)
Damn damn damn... after a year and half of being relatively careful and everything, we thought we had made it through to the other end of the pandemic without managing to get infected with coronavirus. Unfortunately, at the end of last week, my wife came down with a bit of flu-like thing... we have all had similar things during the pandemic, and every time the tests have come back negative... so, we weren't too bothered, but she booked a test anyway.
On Monday she was still waiting for the test results, and so I took the kids to school. I had just dropped them off and was on the way back home on my trusty bakfiets when I got a call from my wife. I had to go back to pick them up... she had tested positive for Coronavirus. SHIT!
We have our suspicions about where she picked it up from... no comment. Anyway, it meant that she would have to isolate for the whole week up in the attic. Luckily, as she had been vaccinated it shouldn't be too bad... and as I was also vaccinated, I was under no additional restrictions unless I showed symptoms. However, the kids were not vaccinated (too young) which meant that they had to stay home from school until they did a test on the 5th day (that needed to be negative as well).
So, it has been a busy week of taking care of the kids... and supplying food and everything to the attic prisoner. We have had a few watch parties with us downstairs and my wife in the attic... and I think she has read a poop-load of books and is starting to get really bored. At least she can do some administrative stuff from up there!
The first few days were quite okay... she was just feeling under the weather and that was it. The last day has not been so good, she has been getting incredibly tired and falling asleep all the time... and the trips to the bathroom have puffed her out. Hopefully that will pass quickly.... but it is a touch worrying.
So, the two of us had the forms and everything to fill out for the moving company this week. That was something that we could do from seperate rooms... although, it is a bit weird to be chatting on Discord with someone that is right above your head! Yes... I set up a little Discord server, so that we could all just keep chatting to each other... my oldest girl is turning into a gif-demon.
Filling out all these forms is a right pain in the arse... lots of entry forms for Australia for the Unaccompanied Effects and all the insurance stuff for the shipping. It is a little weird when you read what you are authorising the shipping captain to do! Dumping your stuff if they need to re-float the ship!
Meanwhile, my wife and I have been having a try of the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes computer game. It is a game that I had been hoping to try out with the kids, but when we did... well, it was just a bit too complex for them! Now that my wife is isolated up in the attic and I am downstairs... we can play the game as it was intended to be played! With two people in different rooms trying to communicate over a dodgy internet call link!
The way that the game works is that one player (me...) has the game bomb in front of you on the computer screen. Meanwhile, the other player has a pdf or printed manual that contains all the various instructions for defusing the various bomb modules... and these modules can get quite complicated with different types of similar looking components and with crazy looking symbols that are hard to describe using only words (unless you happen to be familiar with physics/mathematics notation... I am, my wife is not!).
It is a pretty fun way to pass a half hour or so... plus, it has been a long time since my wife and I played a co-op computer game together... the last time was Portal 2 I think!
Meanwhile, on the school at home front... my kids don't have much in the way of specific instructions and work from their teachers. The older one has some Gynzy work that she can follow on the computer... but they are more like automated exercises and not teaching material. So, I end up teaching her the maths stuff... but the Dutch stuff she seems to be more than capable of handling herself (well, it is probably for the best that she doesn't get help from me...). She also has a task of writing a little thing about what she would like to be when she grows up....
Other than that, it has been a lot of reading books... and exploring and creating stories in Scratch.
... and off course, the little one wants to be exactly like her older sister and she has her simplified Scratch Junior on the tablet! Although, she doesn't really understand the programming/coding part of it... and plays it more like a dollhouse!
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